Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3369, John Fugat, Va.

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★ Fugat John Fogat
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Loisborough 13759 East Tennessee
Order to pay 18 Sep. 1837.
John Hoggat
of Cooke Co in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Edwards of the reg t commanded by Col Puston in the Virginia line for 7 months
John Hoggat. Records etc.
Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of June 1833 and D to Hon John Blair
Arrears to the 4th of March 46 66 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 11 66 $58 32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dana Boyd Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 6 Page 124

Reuben
3369 INVALID.
File No. 3369
* John Fugat Pr. War. line
Act: June 14/32
Index:—Vol. A , Page 128
[Arrangement of 1870.]
* John Fugat. Records corrected Feb 9 vs out a

State of Tennessee Coche County.
Be it remembered that on this 27 th day of May 1833. before the Worshipful the Justices of the Court of pleas & quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid appeared John Fugat aged seventy years, and to obtain the provisions of the act of Congress of the 27 th of June 1832. made and subscribed the following declaratory to wit. that he was born in the County of Shenandoah State of Virginia on the 22 nd day of May 1764. according to the family register now in his possession. that his father removed to Montgomery County Virginia where he was principally raised, and in the year 1780. the fall of said year as well as recollected in October, he was drafted to perform a three months term of duty as a militia man in the aforesaid County of Montgomery State of Virginia. and was at the time aforesaid enrolled under Capt. Edwards, and was put under the command of Col. Preston, and marched from Montgomery across the mountains at the Flower gap to the State of North Carolina, with a view of joining Genl. Greene who at the time was in conflict with the British army there in the Carolinas. that on the march they found the Tories very numerous, and indolent, and the head of Eufawba, had an engagement with a body of Tories, & routed that part of the

Country in order to suppress the Tories, finding that they could not join Green's Army in time to render efficient service, and after subduing the Tories and restoring quiet in the up part of North Carolina returned back to Montgomery County, and was discharged by his Captain, Edwards, said service being for three months , and actually amounting to that time.
Again in the same winter after his return from North Carolina, the Shawnee Indians had been making depredations in the frontier and killing the inhabitants, and declarant was again drafted to go against said Indians and was enrolled under Lieutenant Hartsoe (the Captain of the company not going), and the Indians not being introduced the men who were drafted were sent out in detached companies, & the company commanded by Hartsoe to which declarant belonged, scouted on the head waters of Clinch River near Sandy but the Indians hearing of the approach of the militia retreated & the men returned home after being out in said service one  month , and this declarant obtained a discharge from Lieutenant Hartsoe.
Again in the month of February 1781, he was again drafted in the same County State to go to the South where Cornwallis was on his march through that Country, and was enrolled under Captain Edwards, and marched across the mountains through the Flannery gap, and was again under Col. Preston

marched under him until the part of part of Virginia reached Salem and Greene's Army being at the time at Guilford Court House, marched on to that place & joined him there, and under his command marched in pursuit of Cornwallis toward Virginia until reasons were given to about four hundred of the Metitua (a detachment of the number to return back & guard the prisoners who had been taken at Kings Mountain & were then stationed at Salem (N Carolina) which service he continued to perform until the expiration of his time, being three months and obtained a discharge from Captain Edwards & returned home, which said three terms of duty in the whole amounted to seven months, and for which he claims a pension or annuity.
That he has no documentary evidence which to establish his said services, having lost his several discharges, nor is there to his knowledge any person by whom he can establish his actual services at this late period, but that William Forby and Spencer Forby are persons known to him & to them & by whom he can establish reputation of service. There being no resident minister of the Gospel in his vicinity by whom he can establish said reputation of service. He furthermore states that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any State, and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 27 th day of May 1833.
John his Fugal mark

We William Boydston & William Fairbairn citizens of Cocke County State of Tennessee, do certify that we are well acquainted with John Fugate, the declarant in the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age. We further more certify upon oath, that the said John Fugate is a resident citizen of our vicinity, and that it is reputed & believed in the said neighbourhood of his residence that he was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he has stated. & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 27th May 1833.
William Boydston his mark William Fairbairn mark
And the said Court do hereby certify that after an investigation of the matter and after propounding the interrogatories presented by the Department of War, that the Declarant John Fugate was a Revolutionary soldier as he has stated. We further certify that William Boydston & William Fairbairn who made & subscribed the above affidavit are resident citizens of Cocke County, and are men of reputation & their statement is entitled to full credit.
J. S. Swagerty (Seal) G. W. Coakley (Seal) Wm. Kelley (Seal)
Presiding Justices.
Cocke County
I George M. Foster clerk of the Court of Pleas & for said County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of John Fugate for pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my private seal, the same being no seal of office. George M. Foster this 27th May 1833